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Elizabeth Sims

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[Wikipedia] Elizabeth Sims is an American writer, journalist, and contributing editor at Writer's Digest magazine. She is a former correspondent for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and author of two series of crime novels, including her Rita Farmer Mystery Series, originally published by St. Martin's Press Minotaur

Quotes by Elizabeth Sims

“Anxiety is the evil conjoined twin of rigidity.”

Anxiety

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Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move…

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... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you…

Alive

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The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth…

Abandoned

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Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main…

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I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played…

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